Southampton, New York – Rory McIlroy was happy to see the U.S. Golf Association slow the greens in the first round of the U.S. Open with brutal winds testing top golfers at Shinnecock on Thursday.
After talk of losing the course in 2004 and 2018, when the U.S. Open was played at Shinnecock with gusting winds and lightning-fast greens, the USGA slowed the speed of the putting surfaces from where they were earlier this week.
“Greens are pretty slow and quite receptive,“ McIlroy said. “I think they need to be at this point,”
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